Hey, all.
First time poster here. Read through the rules and a few other bedding posts and feel pretty confidently about technique and materials, but am just looking for a bit of confirmation and advice.
I'm bedding into a Boyd At-One, and the rifle has been performing pretty well out to 1000 yards, but I'm lacking consistency and I can visibly see my receiver seating isn't the greatest, as I have barrel contact at the forend. I've noticed by experiment that a good seating will fix my free-float issue.
Now, what I'm needing advice on his how to handle a stock embedded recoil lug. I saw an earlier post where a gentleman had one and I'm not sure how it was prepared, but he ended up with a space there, and having to redo it, but never got back to post after that. I've taken a dremmel and roughed up the surfaces where my receiver will mate, all the up to behind the lug. I'm assuming since just beyond it is gonna be my barrel nut and then barrel so I shouldn't bed past the lug, right? On top of that, I don't wanna end up with some weird ass space there.
Any advice on how to prepare the area around the lug would be appreciated. I've got a shit ton of modeling clay to fill holes, and have removed my trigger group--I don't have a tang on my receiver--and am gonna clay that up, but yeah. Any insight in the lug and tang area would be appreciated. Pictures relevant. ( The painter's tape on the barrel will be replaced by electrical tape to ensure centering. And should I also bed around my bolt handle notch? )
First time poster here. Read through the rules and a few other bedding posts and feel pretty confidently about technique and materials, but am just looking for a bit of confirmation and advice.
I'm bedding into a Boyd At-One, and the rifle has been performing pretty well out to 1000 yards, but I'm lacking consistency and I can visibly see my receiver seating isn't the greatest, as I have barrel contact at the forend. I've noticed by experiment that a good seating will fix my free-float issue.
Now, what I'm needing advice on his how to handle a stock embedded recoil lug. I saw an earlier post where a gentleman had one and I'm not sure how it was prepared, but he ended up with a space there, and having to redo it, but never got back to post after that. I've taken a dremmel and roughed up the surfaces where my receiver will mate, all the up to behind the lug. I'm assuming since just beyond it is gonna be my barrel nut and then barrel so I shouldn't bed past the lug, right? On top of that, I don't wanna end up with some weird ass space there.
Any advice on how to prepare the area around the lug would be appreciated. I've got a shit ton of modeling clay to fill holes, and have removed my trigger group--I don't have a tang on my receiver--and am gonna clay that up, but yeah. Any insight in the lug and tang area would be appreciated. Pictures relevant. ( The painter's tape on the barrel will be replaced by electrical tape to ensure centering. And should I also bed around my bolt handle notch? )
